Platinum Feedback

 Unfortunately, I did not make it into the top 10 of the platinum competition but I did receive feedback about my piece:

• The judges loved the story of your mother and how she inspired these earrings! 
• We hope that you find someone as brave as her to buy them!
• Platinum needs to be the hero and the impact of the platinum gets a little lost in the creativity of your final form.
• Watch for wearability.
• Brave ideas that didn’t quite hit the mark for the platinum competition

Feedback

Feedback and suggestions about my body of work from my crit with Marlene de Beer:

Overall all the pieces are bulky/heavy due to them being cast.

Sunflowers

• The large sunflowers are too large for the earpiece but could work for a pendant
• The small studs are the only dainty piece there is
• The sunflower in the middle of the teardrop is predictable and the top of the tear drop doesn’t look appealing
• The pendant -the setting is on the same level as the  petals so it’s very flat

Succulent and bone pendant

• add a catch to the chain to prevent it from being too long

Organic chain:

• Why cast the links instead of making them in wire? 
• The succulents in their 'pots' don't make sense on their own
• The succulent 'works' with the heavy chain (I assume this meant proportionately) 
• Agrees that the succulent shouldn’t be a pendant, adding a second one can prevent this.
• The links naturally overlapping/ knot, consider making it intentional
• The links are tick, thinner links give more design possibilities
• Continue exploring the use of the links

Feedback on the chain from Samantha:

• The ring the succulent is on is too thick and could be replaced with a thinner and smaller jumping
• Think about forging the links
• Use thinner wire for the connecting jumprings
• Shorten the chain as it is a bit long.

Bowes, K.,(2021). The layout of my work thus far.